Printing Service

Flickr photo-printing service could bring more revenue to Yahoo

2013-05-22 13:49:00

This week’s flashy redesign of Flickr shifts the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing website away from subscription revenue and more toward ad revenue. But Yahoo also could look to monetize another Flickr feature: printing hard copies of photos. Flickr...

News Corp. publishing firm to start with $2.6 billion in cash

2013-03-08 13:40:00

News Corp.'s soon-to-be publishing company will begin life with no debt and about $2.6 billion in cash -- illustrating the parent company's attempt to provide the new entity with solid financials and money for acquisitions. The new company, which will...

News Corp. exiting New Zealand, to divest pay-TV service

2013-03-04 07:39:00

News Corp. plans to exit New Zealand as part of the company's larger mission to simplify its sprawling holdings. The company, controlled by mogul Rupert Murdoch, announced over the weekend that News Limited, its Australian subsidiary, intends to...

Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.

2013-01-28 11:26:00

The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...

News Corp. name goes to publishing company; Thomson to be CEO

2012-12-03 08:22:00

News Corp.'s soon-to-be publishing company will carry the name News Corp., while the company's television and movie properties will make up a separate global company called the Fox Group. Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is in the process of dividing...

Larry Sloan dies at 89; co-founder of 'Mad Libs' publisher

2012-10-17 00:00:00

Nonsense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blueprints for silliness. The series of word-game books, "Mad Libs," became absurdly popular and marked its 50th...

Beastie Boys' sampling in 'Paul's Boutique' again in spotlight

2012-05-10 16:36:26

Leonard Stern dies at 88; TV writer, producer also co-created Mad Libs

2011-06-09 00:00:00

Leonard Stern, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director whose career in television spanned "The Honeymooners," "Get Smart" and "McMillan & Wife" and whose additional career in publishing included co-creating the classic Mad Libs word game...

LIBYA: Political power struggle amid rumors of Kadafi family feud

2011-01-20 16:32:19

African American publishing matriarch dies

2010-01-05 16:33:42

Vintage whimsy

2010-07-24 00:00:00

On a visit to the Long Beach area in the early 1960s, David and Dorothy Weidman had their first glimpse of a planned community. David saw tract homes; Dorothy saw opportunity. "All those houses are going to need pictures for the walls," Dorothy recalls...

Los Angeles Times, La Opini�n Will Discontinue "Bundling" Promotion

2001-07-10 12:53:09

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Judy Borich, on the bank of the Middle River in Oakland Park and the inspiration for the name of her independent publishing company Middle River Press

2012-03-28 05:40:00

From left, Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of the Johnson Publishing Company, Mayor Rahm Emanuel , former mayor Richard M. Daley , U.S. Postal Service senior plant manager Anthony Vaughan and Congressman Danny Davis all share a laugh during the unveiling ceremony of the John H. Johnson commemorative

2012-01-31 00:00:00

The John H. Johnson commemorative stamp is displayed following the unveiling by the U.S. Postal Service and Johnson Publishing at the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago. John H. Johnson was the founder and CEO of the Johnson Publishing Company and the1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of

2012-01-31 00:00:00